Calls for New Taxation on Sugar- Nothing more than a Police State.

The Fat Police previously the anti smoking lobby, and before that the moral indignant who bought in drink driving laws. They are at it again, this time attacking the use of sugar, as if personal responsibility is not enough. Calling for 20% or above taxation of sugar, and further higher taxation on sugary drinks, it is nothing new. The nanny state seeks another way to tax us, while claiming it is for our own benefit.

Healthy eating, portion control and exercising, all require a personal motivation, and cannot be legislated by government. The moral gaggle of health professionals, and public health officials now seek to rummage through our shopping trolleys, telling us we need to donate more to the government if we are fat or eating sugar.

The same morons who lead the anti smoking, and anti drink driving lobbies, are now up in arms that our children are getting fatter. They seek money for advertising messages promoting the dangers of eating and drinking sugar. Why, it is so they can move into bigger offices, and have jobs telling us what to do with our lives. They seek to make the new enemy, sugar.

The combined minds of these well wishers, has come up with a plan to tax us more. They seek to save billions in health costs bought on by the menace of sugar. Claiming that massive amounts of strokes, diabetics and heart disease can be prevented by a 20% reduction is sugar usage across the community. The food industry uses sugar and salt, cheap flavor enhancement to drive up the consumption of rubbish nutrient scarce food products. However, we are now lead to believe that by paying the government more in a sugar tax, we will all be saving billions.

Research does not back up the idea, that by demonizing one food group, we will overcome obesity. The poorest in our society, are the ones who will be most affected. Once again, the moral few seek to impose their will onto the rest of us. Where will they draw the line? Will it be refined sugars that are taxed, will fruit sugars be exempted? Apple juice contains more calories than cocacola in a serving half the size, yet i doubt these fat police will be seeking to tax fruit sugars. Within months the food producers will convert to the use of fruit sugars, avoiding the tax and hiding the truth from consumers.

Public health interventions, often assume an incorrect response by the public when they formulate these plans to attack us with taxation. Smoking taxes, have not bought about the assumed decrease in smoking rates. France and Mexico are 2 countries that have tried a sugar tax, and both have found that consumption whilst initially down up to 6% soon rises again and then increases beyond the previous recorded levels.

Soon the fat police will be proposing banning advertising to certain markets and at certain times, yet again the food producers will not take this lying down, they will simply shift their marketing into other areas. It seems our teenagers are allowed unlimited viewing of blood and guts in violent television programming, but will soon be denied advertising for a cheeseburger and coke. Of course our children spend more time watching the internet than TV anyway, so where will the marketing be moved too?

Remember after your children get their degrees, they will only be able to find jobs at Macdonalds, and Food Courts, so eventually they will see it all anyway.

Make way for the next Moral Intervention into your lifestyle

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